Dutch tongue piercing

Hi, I'm Pieter and I'm 21 years old, live in the
Netherlands, and my life's pretty average. About two years
ago I got my first tattoo. It was one of those thing's I
felt I had to do, no particulate reason, just this strong
urge to get tattooed. Well since the blessed day I got
injected with the well known tattoo virus I've been obsessed
with this wonderful form of art. This obsession made me get
a second tattoo and it made me buy tattoo magazines. Reading
these magazines I stumbled onto some Internet addresses and
I decided to check them out. After a while I reached this
site, BME, and the piercing pictures just sort'a grabbed me.
Piercings interested me before but I never got one for the
simple reason that they were getting to fashionable.
Everyone who wanted to be cool got their eyebrow or navel
pierced. Well, BME now introduced me to the world of
piercing and my vision changed. I wanted one, and I wanted
it BAD. Only, which one ? Eyebrows are a big no no and the
rest ... well, I started reading. Finally I decided that a
tongue piercing would be the thing for me, not to visible,
easy to take care of, virtually painless and most of all
FUN. I told my sister that I wanted to get my tongue done
and she proposed that we could give each other one for our
birthdays (they're still 6 months away though) I said OK my
sister asked around, I read some more and finally we picked
a place and a date. Body Manipulations in Amsterdam, the day
before Carnaval (no school for a week). It would give us a
week of rest so our piercing would get all the opportunity
to heal. After that we told our parents about our plan,
they didn't really like it but, who cares ...

I'M GETTING ONE !!!!

Friday 7:30 hr. Feb. 12th

Today's the day. I'm going to get my tongue pierced
(finally). I have to go to school today but I think I'll
skip the last few classes. That'll mean I'm out of school
about 13:00 hr. I'll meet my sister at the train station
(she'll get her tongue done too), we'll have to get some
supplies like Listerine and ice and then it's two hours in
the train, somewhere around 15:00 hr. at the piercer,
hmmmm...that gives us two hours to get pierced, should be
enough. We'll have to be back home at seven 'cause otherwise
we can't use our OV (sort of a free travel pass) to travel
anymore and I don't want to buy train tickets. Hey, I'm a
student, I'm poor :)

I haven't told anyone at school about my piercing plans and
I'm not going to tell them either. It's a surprise. There's
no school next week so my tongue won't be swollen anymore (I
hope) when I'll get back in school. I've read just about
every piece of information about tongue piercings I could
get my hands on and they all say that the piercing takes
about 3 to 5 day's to heal. Or at least till you can talk
again, let's hope I'm a quick healer.

Well, It's of to school for me, can't wait to get that fat
needle trough my tongue.

Later that day ...

I was supposed to meet my sis at the McDonalds, I figured
this would be the place for my last meal. I definitely got
the time to enjoy my food 'cause my sister was about 30
minutes late. Finally she came and we went to take the train
to Amsterdam. Of to get Manipulated.

Finally we reached Amsterdam CS it seemed to take ages to
get there. The only thing to do now was to go and find the
piercing studio. I got the address from the internet but
Amsterdam is so F'n big. Well, we search for a while, asked
around for a bit and then reached our destination. It was
really busy and when I was up to talk to the counter girl
she told me I had to wait for two more hours and my sis had
to wait even longer because she wouldn't do us both in one
session. Well, as you can imagine we didn't really feel like
waiting that long and we were planning on getting home
around seven. After some thinking we decided to search for
an other shop. Then I remembered a place in Rotterdam
(Tattoo Bob), a friend of mine got tattooed there, I looked
up the address and off we went. Back to the trains. About an
hour later we reached Rotterdam, asked for directions and
took the subway to see Tattoo Bob. Finally we reached the
place and we were so relived to see that it was nearly
empty. We went in and the people there were great. We asked
for a tongue piercing and immediately this piercer guy takes
out this fake tongue with this huge piercing in it and puts
it in his mouth. Man, what a stupid sight that was. Well
anyway, he agreed to pierce us and my sis demanded that she
would go first. That way she couldn't run away after I got
mine. I wasn't allowed to look but everything went fine.
Then it was my turn.

Getting pierced

When my sis was done Ralph (the piercer) called me. He told
me to sit down, in one extremely comfortable chair I might
add, and he got a pair of clean gloves the needle and the
barbell. Then I had to fill out a form in which I claimed
full responsibility for my actions and at the same time it
was a sort of coupon for a free barbell change ( I can
change the large one I have now for a shorter one later ).
When everything was filled out and he told me the basic
piercing story he sterilising the barbell rapped me in paper
just in case I would drool and told me to close my eyes
because he didn't wanted me to see the needle. I told him I
could handle it but he insisted on closed eyes because he
knew from experience that people easily panic when they see
the needle, even if they say they can handle it. Well, I
sorta agreed and decided to close my eyes. He wouldn't
pierce me if I didn't. Now I didn't see anything so I can
only guess what really happened but I'm pretty sure I
basically know what he did. First he told me to stick out my
tongue so he could apply a pair of clamps. I flapped my
tongue out, he put the clamps in place and then told me to
relax my tongue. Well, first part was easy, on to the second
part. He placed the needle on my tongue and I felt a pinch.
He pushed the needle trough and at the bottom I felt this
little pinch again. I was an unpleasant feeling but it was
short and I wouldn't describe it as real pain. When the
needle went trough he removed it but a plastic tube remained
to stick trough my tongue. He placed the barbell in the
tube, pulled the tube out and placed the barbell in my
tongue. After that the top ball was screwed on and I could
open my eyes again. I got a glass of water and the piercer
checked if I was all right. Well, I was so fucking excited I
couldn't even remember how felling bad was supposed to feel.
He quickly noticed I was OK and I was allowed to get up from
the chair. I made an appointment for the barbell change,
it's in two weeks, and we went home. Again we took the train
but this time we had to buy a ticket. All in all we spent
about 8 hours in the train and 30 minutes getting pierced.
Well, finally we arrived at home, we got some ice and then
we called our parents (they had to go to a party) and they
still really couldn't appreciate our adventure but right now
I couldn't care less. Well, I don't have any problems with
the piercing yet, no swelling, I can talk and it doesn't
even really hurt. I just have to keep my tongue still 'cause
when I move it around to much it starts to irritate a bit.
I'm going to sleep now, let's see what the rest of the week
has in store for my new toy.

Saturday ... the day after.

When I woke up my tongue was pretty swollen and dry. It
hurtled a bit in the morning but nothing serious, sucking on
ice helped a lot. Tried to speak but I have a terrible lisp.
Later in the day I got some Listerine and rinsed for the
first time. Wasn't to bad. I ate some ice cream and managed
to eat a banana and some cake, really slow but no real
problems there. Well, up to now it's going fine let's hope
things will only improve in the next couple of days.

Day nr. 2

When I woke up my tongue was bleeding a bit. Probably had a
dream with some nice girls in it, if you know what I mean :)
Well, after some Listerine and ice the bleeding stopped. My
speech is better but I'm still having problems with L's and
there's a slight lisp. Eating is going great, I ate some
soup and bread today. I'm also able to eat soft cookies and
stuff. I hardly notice the barbell most of the time so I
guess it's healing just fine. Now I'm going to sleep but
first I'm going to try to eat a candy bar 'cause I don't
think I can handle living without candy for one more day.

Day nr. 3

In the morning my tongue was covered with a brownish goo,
yuch. I tried to remove it with my toothbrush but that
didn't help much, guess I'd better dilute my Listerine some
more. There's no pain but my tongue was bleeding a bit this
morning, ice helped. I'm able to eat almost anything as long
as the food won't get stuck between my teeth. I can't use my
tongue to get it out so that's a bit of a problem. Talking
is getting better, my lisp is nearly gone. I caught myself
playing with my piercing a couple times today, have to
remember not to play to much or my tongue will heal slower.

Oh yeah, I told one of my friends about my piercing today
and he couldn't believe it, now he's dyeing to see it.

Day nr. 4

The morning swelling is getting less. Didn't need any ice
during the whole day. My tongue was pale again today and my
mom got a bit worried so I called the piercer (to calm my
mom down) they told me it was the Listerine, I needed to
dilute it some more, just as I expected. I had my first
"real" meal today and there was no problem there, even the
meat chewed down fine. The bottom ball is sticking out a bit
now so it looks like the swelling is going down, joy joy.
Well, that's it for today.

Day nr. 5

Everything back to normal now. There's still a little bit of
swelling but noting serious. The bottom ball is really
sticking out of my tongue now. For the first time I have to
be careful not to bite on the balls while I eat. Well,
there's nothing more to tell, everything is going great. I
can't wait to get back to school to show off. The girls in
my class will go crazy. hehehe :)

Monday ...

Went to school today and one of my class mates told
everybody about my piercing. Well, I had to stick my tongue
out for about a million times. Most of the people I showed
it to reacted with an "AUCH !!!" or a "YUCH !!!" but in the
end they all liked it. One girl wanted to kiss me on the
spot just to check out how it felt, kissing with a tongue
piercing, but I have to wait a few more days till my tongue
is totally healed, to bad ;) Anyway, now I'm the coolest guy
in school :) (or I'm just a bit cooler than I was before :)

Two weeks later (barbell changing time)

After school I took the train to Rotterdam to see Ralph to
get a shorter barbell. I walked the last bit 'cause I didn't
feel like waiting for the bus. Well, I reached the shop and
got a warm welcome. Man, do I like it there. Anyway, I asked
for Ralph and told him I wanted a barbell change. We talked
a bit about the healing and how I liked it so far and then
he told me to sit down and he got the shorter barbell. After
he took the old one out he had to go answer the phone and I
was sitting there with a "naked" tongue, it felt really
weird not having a piercing, I couldn't wait till I had that
precious piece of metal back in my mouth. Well, when Ralph
came back it was a matter of seconds before the smaller
barbell was put in. I thanked the guy and went home, totally
satisfied.

To conclude this story I just have to say "PIERCE YOUR
TONGUE !!!! NOW !!!!" it's fun, believe me.

If you have any comments, questions or you just need to talk
to someone and your psychiatrist is on a holiday you can
always reach me at PHAL77@hotmail.com

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